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China has the ability to stop the construction of new AI data centers. It is a nightmare for the US

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During the last two years The Chinese government has fought The US sanctions and its allies resorting to a strategy that has proven to be very effective. China controls the production and processing of several critical minerals For semiconductor industries, renewable energies or electric car, among other sectors, which has led to the administration led by Xi Jinping to regulate its export in a very strict way. In early December 2024 He chose to prohibit The export of some critical minerals to the US, among which were three essential metals for the chips industry: Gallium, Germanio and Antimony. Shortly after the Chinese government added two more critical metals to its list of export restrictions: Scandio and Disposio. However, there is a much less exotic chemical element than those I just mentioned the one that is barely talking. China also controls it and is using it to put the US against the strings. Bismuth is a fundamental metal for the global technology industry Although it is not monopolizing as many headlines in international media as rare earths, bismuth (BI) is an essential chemical element not only for the integrated circuit industry, but for the entire global technology sector. It is a whitish, crystalline and relatively fragile metal that acquires a pinkaceous tone when coming into contact with the air. It shares some physicochemical properties with lead and tin, but it has a distinctive characteristic that has helped it be erected as the essential metal that is: it is much less toxic than other heavy metals, such as lead. However, this is not at all its only quality. In addition, it is the most diamagnetic metal, so when introducing it into a magnetic field it is repelled very weakly. On the other hand, its electrical resistance is high and its thermal conductivity is very low. Interestingly, the only metal that has even smaller thermal conductivity is mercury. And its melting point is relatively low (about 271.3 ° C), while Its boiling point touches the 2,000 ° C. Finally, the bismuth has another very unusual property among the metals that are worth not overlooking: when it solidifies it expands. The bismuth is an essential metal thanks to its intervention in welds and the tuning of thermoelectric materials If we had to stay with only two characteristics of all that we just reviewed the chosen ones would be their low toxicity index and their ability to expand when solidified. In fact, these properties largely justify their use in industries that have a strategic role for many countries, such as chips, consumer electronics, renewable energy or electric car. Although it participates in a wide range of applications, the bismuth is an essential metal thanks to its intervention in the welds and the tuning of thermoelectric materials. For many decades the metal usually used in welds was lead, but it has an important problem: it is very toxic. Gradually this metal has been displaced by the alloys of bismuth and tin, which are much less toxic, and, in addition, They have a very low melting point. In fact, these alloys have a leading role in the manufacture of flexible substrates, printed circuit plates and all kinds of electronic components. On the other hand, thermoelectric materials allow generating electricity taking advantage of temperature and vice versa differences, so they are very important in the development of efficient cooling systems. China is currently the largest world producer in bismuth. In fact, control between 80 and 84% of the supply of this metal, so the global distribution chain is in your hands. Only in 2024 this Asian country produced 13,000 metric tons of this chemical element, while outside the borders of China, only 3,000 more tons were refined. This essentially absolute control has led to the Chinese government to drastically restrict Bismuth export with the purpose of responding to the sanctions of their rivals. In the US, some technology companies are already against the ropes because their bismuth reserves are running out. And it is not precisely unimportant companies. Google, Amazon and Nvidia are three of the US companies that Chinese bismuth urgently need In order to sustain the construction of your new data centers for applications of artificial intelligence (AI), so They have asked the US government that he reaches an agreement with his Chinese counterpart. Otherwise the development of AI in the country led by Donald Trump will be compromised. In this area, as we have just seen, China has the pan well grabbed by the handle. More information | China / Business Inside In Xataka | The two most important chip companies in China have a problem: the 5 Nm have been choked

Spain promised them very happy as the power of the data centers. Did not have the heat waves

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On July 19, 2002, at 06:33 PST, Google and Oracle Data Centers in London They stopped working. The reason was not a human or electrical failure. The only thing that happened is that 40 ° C were exceeded in the British capital, and the cooling systems of that data center could not support those temperatures. The result: falls of multiple services for hours. It was a dangerous advance (and we are talking about London, which is not especially hot) for data centers, especially considering what comes to us. Climate change also threatens data centers. The only good news of this summer’s extreme heat is that It will be carried compared to the one in the coming years. The theme, which is worrisome to humans, has a surprise derivative: these extreme temperatures are going to be a colossal challenge for data centers. We do not stop seeing record temperatures one summer after another, and that will test the cooling systems of those centers. Hello, cooling. There are no definitive data on the temperature at which data centers must work, and while certain experts They recommend that work in a range of 18 to 27 ºC, others They hold that the range must be even cooler, between 17 and 21 ºC. And of course, that is only achieved with powerful air and liquid cooling systems. Heat comes out. If it is more hot, it is necessary to refrigerate more, and that imposes greater electrical consumption and therefore, a greater electricity bill. Of not controlling those temperatures the efficiency of the components is decreasing. As in mobile. It is exactly the same thing that happens in our mobiles and computers when they overheat: if the cooling systems fail to bother those temperatures, The ‘throttling’ is normally produced: The components “go round” to consume less and dissipate less heat. And the water, too. In many data centers liquid cooling also plays a fundamental role, and in the face of heat waves, water consumption also rises. That is especially worrying now that Big Tech have announced that they will invest tens of billions of dollars in new data centers for AI. Liquid cooling to power. In those facilities dedicated to AI a huge amount of chips accumulates in small spaces, which makes liquid cooling solutions much more appropriate. And the same thing happens again: before extreme temperatures, it is up to “climb the cooling systems to deal with possible overheating. Evaporative cooling. Of course, engineers who develop these types of projects go to solutions to try to avoid problems, especially when data centers are in areas where summers are especially extreme. There come techniques coom the Direct evaporative coolingin which the refrigerated and humidified air is directly entered the data center. There are other techniques such as water cooling towers and of course an intelligent management of air flow management is optimal. Be careful where you look up your data center. That makes it more and more important to choose the ideal location for new data centers. In Spain Aragon is becoming In an absolutely protagonist region. There are several projects in which Big Tech will put (theoretically) in progress data centers in this autonomous community, although the risk of extreme temperatures there is not so high as would be further south of the peninsula. But with increasingly high temperatures in summer, what can be done? Ice cream clusters. The option in some cases is simply to choose locations in which the weather is much cooler … or even icy. Facebook has already built several Data centers in Lulea (Sweden) In 2013, but in Spain we have an even more striking case: the Social Security CPD He moved from Madrid to Soria for the simple reason that it is colder there. That, among other things, allowed to save The 150,000 euros that would have cost the cooling of these systems in Madrid during the summer. Image | Goal In Xataka | We have calculated how much money the Big Tech are being spent on data centers. The numbers are dizzy

IA consumes so much energy that the United States is building data centers directly in natural gas wells

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What makes a startup dedicated to building data centers get 11.6 billion dollars in financing. In the case of Crusoe Energy Systems, it all started with an idea as disturbing as profitable: build data centers with natural gas wells. Crusoe Energy’s idea Journalist Emily Chang de Bloomberg visited a few weeks ago The city of Abilene, in Texas, where Crusoe is building the monstrous Stargate data centers, The 500.00 billion project OpenAi, SoftBank and Oracle to develop general artificial intelligence. Stargate arrived at Crusoe Energy thanks to the demonstrated efficiency of the startup in the construction of specialized data centers in AI. Chase Lochmiller, the CEO of Crusoe, explained to Chang how the company was born: “When an oil company opens an oil well, one of the associated by -products is natural gas. And when they do not have access to an pipeline, all this associated gas simply burns in situ. So we had an idea: instead of trying to take that gas to a market where you can sell, we could create a market for gas. We could build mobile and modular data centers, take them direct data”. Crusoe was born in the best possible place to materialize this idea: the country of fracking. But maybe not at the best time to do it. Initially, they chose to build GPUS farms to undermine Bitcoin. When the cryptocurrency market collapsed, they ended up pivoting artificial intelligence. Like crypto mining, AI data centers are not based on CPUS but depend on the parallel processing capacity of thousands of GPUS, mainly Nvidia specialized chips. These new data centers consume much more energy than traditional data centers, so Crusoe started from a key advantage: their direct access to fossil fuels that obtained at the price of bargain. A booming business Oil giants are not oblivious to this trend. Exxonmobil is developing Off-Grid gas plants specifically for data centers with carbon capture technology to reduce emissions. Chevron, meanwhile, It has been associated With Engine No. 1 and Ge Vernova to mount similar facilities. The first will open in 2026, also in Texas. The figures are eloquent: the demand for natural gas for data centers will be increased by 47 GW from here to 2030. Currently, natural gas already feeds about 40% of the loading of data centers in the United States and is expected to continue being the main source of supply up to at least 2030. It is not the preferred energy source, but There are not enough renewable to feed artificial intelligence and Not all data centers They can be connected to a nuclear power plant, another common occurrence in the United States. As for Crusoe, thanks to the initial push of natural gas that were going to burn oil companies they developed their own technologies, such as a closed cooling system that does not need to renew The water evaporating the serversor own gas turbines, such as 360 MWs that are installing in the Stargate project as a backup energy source. Stargate data centers will feed mainly solar panels and wind turbines, which abound in Abilene for the confluence of wind and sunny hours. It is one of the reasons why data centers are being built in this Texas area, in addition to the tax exemptions that local governments are willing to yield in exchange for employment generation. It remains to be seen how many employees have everything built. Image | W.Carter (CCO) In Xataka | Microsoft will reopen a nuclear power plant that has been closed since 2019. It needs it for its artificial intelligence

Saudi Arabia wants to become a new power in data centers. Nothing is clear that I can do it

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Donald Trump has made a unique tour of several countries in the Middle East, and among the agreements that are considered surprising: Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar want to invest billions of dollars in the construction of data centers for ia. The question is whether they will do so. Chips for strategic alliances. The Biden administration had largely limited the number of advanced chips from which these countries could access, but Trump’s mandate is changing things. As they point out in The New York Times, AI chips seem now to be a useful argument to strengthen relations with countries with this Trump newspaper “has deep financial ties and business. “Qatar already plans donate a Boeing 747-8 which could end up being used as the new Air Force One. Saudi Arabia on the one hand. Nvidia and AMD have reached an agreement to sell their professional GPUS to Humain. This newly created company – it belongs to the country’s public investment fund – It has the objective to create a large data center in Saudi Arabia. The agreement with AMD raises An investment of 10,000 million dollars in infrastructure in the next five years. Humain will supervise the development of these data centers, while AMD will provide chips and software. Arab Emirates attached to the other. As indicated In Bloombergthe Trump administration is considering reaching an agreement that would allow United Arab Emirates to import a million Nvidia chips. Eau could thus buy 500,000 of those chips per year until 2027. A fifth would be reserved for the G42 firm of Abu Dhabi. Saudi data centers. Nvidia, meanwhile, will sell 18,000 Your GB300 chips To Saudi Arabia. This was announced by Jensen Huang on Tuesday, which will contribute clearly to the Humain projects, which propose with data centers with a joint “1.9 GW” power “in 2030. Those 18,000 chips will apparently be part of the” hundreds of thousands “of which the Saudi project will be nourished. Possible “resale” to China? The United States restricted the sale of advanced chips from AI to China in 2022, and there are those who fear that countries in the Middle East end up serving as intermediaries so that the chips that the US allows you to sell there ends where they should not. G42 theoretically cut ties with Huawei to reach an agreement of 1.5 billion dollars with Microsoft, but the suspicions about the situation persist. Saudi Arabia and its megaprojects. As points The analyst Ed Zitron, countries of the Middle East such as Saudi Arabia have been talking about all kinds of megaprojects for years, but one thing is their promises and another realities. It occurs with the Jeddah Tower, MUKAABhis Pharaonic airport And of course The Line and his futuristic city, Neom. All these projects still have a long way to go, and this new Saudi ambition, although more “contained” in terms of dimensions, is equally complex for a country without experience in this area. There is energy … Countries like Saudi Arabia have abundant energy resources and in fact there are A strong investment in solar energy. Its application to provide power to those data centers, yes, it is not so easy, as they are discovering In the United States. … but no (much) water. The problem is that these data centers dissipate a lot of heat and the desert environment is not exactly the idea for this type of facilities. Extraordinary cooling solutions are needed and the country has scarce water resources. Desalination plants are A pillar of its strategic plan, and innovations may also go into play in the field of refrigeration such as closed circuit systems or Direct liquid cooling. Image | Neom In Xataka | New York Bitcoin miners are buying old power plants. New Yorkers are not happy

Spain wants to be the paradise of the data centers. The blackout has complicated that ambition

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Spain aspired to be The great HUB of data centers in Europetaking advantage of our surplus electrical capacity and the abundant physical space that we have available outside the large metropolitan areas. But The recent national blackout has exposed the structural vulnerabilities that could make this ambition derail, as analyzed The confidential. Why is it important. The data centers could attract up to 49,000 million euros in investments, representing a new form of industrialization for a country that has seen its traditional productive fabric diminish. In figures: The contradiction. The Spanish model has A difficult tension to solve that the blackout has put on the table: On the one hand, the commitment to renewable, necessary but variable. On the other hand, the nuclear abandonment plan, precisely those that give stability to the network. Yes, but. The data centers exceeded the blackout, as well as hospitals or radio stations, thanks to their support generators. However, the risk is in the perception of international investors. Seeing that a national blackout is a real possibility in Spain because it has already happened is something that can make them question their reliability about the Spanish system from something as basic as the energy supply. The competition. France, neighboring country, is the most notable rival: it is developing A data gigafactoría backed by the State and financed by United Arab Emiratesfed by a network where 70% comes from nuclear energy. Spain recovered from the blackout in a few hours – with some hard consequences along the way -, but perhaps it costs him more to recover from the problem of perception generated by such an event. The one who questions If you can guarantee basic stability that this industry demands … or if investors will prefer destinations with greater energy certainty. Outstanding image | Claudio Schwarz in Unspash In Xataka | “11 signs that you have ADHD and you don’t know it”: more and more people are self -diagnosis of mental health problems

consumes much more electricity than data centers

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In 2022 in the air conditioning it represented 7% of world consumption of electricity. And its pressure on electrical infrastructure does not stop increasing year after year. On the other hand, data centers will be responsible for 10% of the increase in energy demand until 2030. Air conditioning will contribute a much greater percentage. These estimates formalized them in November 2024 International Energy Agency (IEA) and clearly reflect that the energy consumption of air conditioning devices is more worrying than that of data centers. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) that we are living has triggered the proliferation of these facilities in the US, China, Japan, Singapore, India, Germany, Netherlands or Ireland, among other nations, but, in theory, the forecast of the IEA has taken it into account. And also that air conditioning devices have to respect an increasingly strict regulation in energy matters. However, as Casey Crownhart points out, a journalist specialized in the behavior of the weather of MIT Technology Reviewhe global warming Play against us. Refrigeration is the authentic monster of global energy demand In 2016 there were just under 2,000 million air conditioning devices throughout the planet. However, in 2050 the IEE estimates that there will be about 6,000 million of these devices. This strong growth is the consequence of the constant increase in the number of cooling degrees per day derived from global warming. In 2024 the cooling degrees per day were 6% higher than in 2023, and nothing less than 20% higher than the average of the first two decades of this century. The countries that invest more energy in the air conditioning devices are precisely the three most populated on the planet: India, China and the US The countries that invest more energy in the air conditioning devices are precisely the three most populated on the planet: India, China and the US. However, the impact of this energy demand is global. Besides, not only does it matter How much electricity consume air conditioning devices; It is also very relevant When this energy demand occurs. In fact, in the US these devices represent up to 70% of consumption in those time slots in which it is more hot. This behavior submits the electricity to enormous stress, although this voltage oscillates as the hottest hours give way to the freshest moments of the day. Whatever it is is evident that It is very important to innovate in the field of cooling technologies. The presumable proliferation of air conditioning devices over the next few years will require that each of them consume less energy. Even if it’s just a bit. A minimum improvement in a huge park park can make a big difference. The good news is that Innovations are coming in the technology of cooling devices that invite us to look to the future with reasonable optimism. Desiccant cooling systems use special materials that absorb moisture to cool spaces in a more efficient way. And heat exchangers containing not only air conditioning devices, but also refrigerators or heat pumps, are increasingly efficient. It seems that this is the way. Let us trust technological development to help us solve this enormous challenge. Image | Sergei a More information | MIT Technology Review In Xataka | Samsung throws the handbrake: delays the construction of its US avant -garde factories and South Korea

This nuclear reactor is different from everyone else. It has been expressly designed for data centers

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The proliferation of large data centers for artificial intelligence (AI) raises a very serious energy problem. Both, in fact, that the US Department of Energy is considering the possibility that companies that have large data centers Dedicated to the training of AI models install in their vicinity A small nuclear power plant that is able to meet your energy needs. This strategy would also reinforce the US bet for energy sources that do not emit greenhouse gases. What is not clear is yet what investment the technology companies and what subsidies will contribute the government will assume. At the moment some of the great technology firms have already invested in nuclear energy, although not necessarily in fission. Microsoft, for example, It has an agreement with Helion Energy to obtain in the future energy from its reactors of nuclear fusion. An extra modular reactor adapted to the needs of data centers The image we have published on the cover of this article is a recreation made by the American company Aalo Atomics of its extra modular reactor Aal Pod. This machine has a lot in common with SMR reactors (Small Modular Reactro compact modular reactor) of which We have spoken to you in other articlesbut, according to its creators, they uncheck of the latter in something very important: its modularity is even greater. This peculiarity is precisely the According to them It makes it suitable for data centers. However, the reactor of Fourth Generation Nuclear Fission Aalo POD has another quality that, on paper, is very attractive: its enormous flexibility. And, again according to his designers, he can work in a completely independent way of the electricity grid, coupled to it, and even, hybrid. In this way, the owners of the data centers can use the strategy that better solves their needs by balancing the electricity produced by the reactor and the one that is capable of giving them the existing electrical infrastructure. Sounds good. Each Aalo POD incorporates five aal-1 micro-recruitors matched with a single electricity generating turbine The prototype that Aal Atomics has made known is capable of delivering 50 MWE (electric megawatts), but its modularity allows you to climb this machine to be able to deliver several hundred MWE, and even thousands of MWE. The image we have is a recreation, but it allows us to intuit what the architecture of this reactor is. Interestingly, it looks more like a linear particle accelerator than a conventional nuclear fission reactor. An interesting note: Each Aal POD incorporates five micro-recruitors Aal-1 paired with a single electricity generating turbine. However, this is not all. The heart of the Aalo Atomics strategy consists in developing a production technology that allows to manufacture the modules of each Aal Pod Industrial and chain. As if they were cars. Or reaction turbines for airplanes. According to this company, this approach will allow them to install their reactor with the data centers in less time, occupying less space and for less money than a conventional SMR reactor would cost. In addition, again according to Aalo Atomics, each micro -reactor can be resumed at any time without the need to stop others with which it is matched and refrigerated by sodium, so it is not necessary to have a water source close. The promises of this company on paper paint well. Now the important thing is to materialize everything you have announced in a final product that lives up to expectations. Data centers continue to proliferate. And they don’t rest. Image | Aalo Atomics More information | Aalo Atomics In Xataka | Nuclear fission has been waiting for a type of fuel to take off. And he already caresses it with the tip of the fingers

Large technological ones begin to turn with their investment in data centers

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Everything was frenzy in the data centers segment a few weeks ago. The Big Tech fought to see What is the one that was spent more money facing the theoretical (and inevitable?) AI revolution. Microsoft was one of the champions of this bet, but the panorama is changing, and there are those who talk about how the segment has been oversized. 2 GW less. As indicated In BloombergMicrosoft has abandoned its plans to create several new data centers in the US and Europe. The joint power of these projects would be 2 GW according to analysts of the TD Cowen firm, and the reason attributed to the decision is singular: now it turns out that there is an excessive supply of clusters dedicated to artificial intelligence. Or what is the same: there will be enough data centers dedicated to AI. There is already talk of a “bubble of data centers”. Joe Tsai, president of the Chinese group Alibaba, He warned these days precisely from the potential existence of a bubble of data centers for ia. To this millionaire fever for these ambitious projects begins to seem indiscriminate, and highlighted how in some cases there may be no clear clients to direct those resources. Plan to invest 52,000 million dollars in data centers, but within three years, therefore therefore of the 100,000 million dollars of Amazonthe 80,000 of Microsoft, the 75,000 Alphabet or the 65,000 finish In a single year. An exaggerated demand is being screened. This manager also spoke of the hypothetical investment of 500,000 million dollars of the Stargate project. “I think, in a way, people are investing anticipating the demand they are seeing today, but they are projecting a much greater demand (of which there may be).” China in fact accumulates unfortunate data centers. In Microsoft they relax their strategy. Redmond’s firm, said these analysts, has made this decision shortly after loosen ties with OpenAicompany in which it has invested around 13,000 million dollars. That will cause the company led by Sam Altman to go to cloud services of other partners. Google and Meta take the opportunity. The withdrawal of these projects assumes that Microsoft has annulled some of those contracts and postponed others. Interestingly Google and Meta seem to have taken advantage and have appropriated some of the projects that Microsoft has abandoned in Europe. The details of the projects from which the firm has been withdrawn are not known, and neither if that change of plans could affect projects already signed such as data centers They are already announced in Aragon. We already have enough. A Microsoft spokesman indicated in a statement to Bloomberg how the company has already made a significant investment. “While we may reduce or strategically adjust our infrastructure in some areas, we will continue to grow strongly in all regions,” he explained. “This allows us to invest and assign resources to growth areas for our future.” In recent times we are also seeing how climbing no longer compensates so much, and GPT-4.5 is a good demonstration of it. What about ambition. At the beginning of the year we knew that Microsoft expect to invest 80,000 million dollars throughout fiscal year 2025 in the construction of new data centers. These intentions are maintained according to their spokesman, but they hope that the growth rate should slow down the next fiscal year, and the efforts will focus on filling those server data centers and other equipment. In Xataka | The B300 GPU is the new Nvidia beast for Ia. And we already know what prepares for 2026 and 2027

China accumulates unfortunate data centers, and it is not the only

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When Chatgpt broke into the scene in November 2022unleashed one of the most intense technological careers in recent years. Companies and governments rushed to take positions so as not to stay out of the rise of the artificial intelligence. In the center of that reaction were the data centers: key infrastructure that make it possible to train language models that shape chatbots and other AI -based applications. American giants such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta They announced the expansion of their infrastructure beyond their borderswith millionaire projects that also arrived in Spain and They unleashed authentic fever for this type of facilities in the region. The AI ​​earthquake also shook China, where the central government declared its development as a national priority and promoted the creation of new infrastructure to sustain it. The data centers boom begins to stagger According to IDC analysis firm databetween 2022 and 2024, more than 200 projects linked to data centers focused on artificial intelligence were tendered, distributed in 28 provinces and 81 Chinese cities. The growth rate shot against previous years, with a wave of “intelligent computer science” initiatives that not only sought to strengthen the country’s digital infrastructure, but also promised to boost local economies. There were several well -known names in this part of the world: Alibaba, Bytedonce – the Tiktok matrix -, Tencent, Baidu or Deepseek, all betting hard for this land. The objective was clear: if artificial intelligence was going to mark the future, China could not afford to be left in front of the United States. In order not to lose positions in this race, the Asian giant needed to move fast, very fast. Although neither companies nor governments said it openly, each new project was announced with full awareness that technology was not yet mature enough, and the business model, either at all defined. The bet – as it usually occurs in this type of initiatives – was based on the expectation that, sooner or later, it will generate a relevant economic value, either directly or indirectly, for those who are promoting it. Despite the millionaire investments in new data centers, China’s enthusiasm for large -scale linguistic models is losing strength. As Mit Technology Review collectsmore than half of the recently built computer resources remain without using. To this situation are added factors such as the lack of technical and market experience of many of the actors who bet on this type of infrastructure for being a trend. The result: dozens of smaller data centers are looking for customers willing to pay for their use, but the truth is that, although China is a huge market, demand is not responding as expected. The large technological groups in the country are already dealing with their own infrastructure, and smaller companies, instead of training their own models in these centers, are opting for payment solutions for use. Finally, they point out that many of the data centers built in recent years were designed thinking about pre -entry workloads, that is, long and demanding processes that require huge volumes of data. However, the current demand focuses on inference: executing models already trained to offer real -time responses. And that is where many of these infrastructure are not prepared. A phenomenon that extends beyond China According to TD Cowen analysts cited by BloombergMicrosoft would have canceled new data centers projects In the United States and Europe. The company has not made official statements, so it is not yet clear what facilities would be affected. However, experts point to a concrete cause: the reduction of commitments with Openai, the startup of AI in which Microsoft has invested billions. For years, Openai depended exclusively on Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. But that changed recently, when opening to other computer suppliers. In parallel, Microsoft maintains plans to invest 80,000 million dollars in data centers during its current fiscal year, which ends in June. Even so, analysts expect that investment rhythm will later decelerate an unexpected movement. Images | DC Studio | Scott Rodgerson In Xataka | Personalized GPTS are one of Openai’s great inventions. Now Google has just released yours in Gemini

Openai’s new voice models already speak as customer service agents. His next destination: the call centers

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Since the beginning of the year, the objective of great technological ones has been clear: that we talk to artificial intelligence (ia). Openai, Microsoft, Google and Meta have added voice functions to their assistants. But this seems to be just the beginning. The industry advances at a frantic pace and the way we interact with these tools continues to evolve. Tell the voice agents ‘hello’. Sam Altman’s company has been betting on text agents with tools such as Operator either Computer-Useing agents. However, Openai already has it ready if next great movement to continue highlighting in the race for the development of AI: to promote a new and powerful generation of voice agents. New models on stage. OpenAI has announced The launch of new audio models to turn voice into text and vice versa. They are not in chatgpt, but in the APIwhere developers can use them to create voice agents. The important thing? They aim to be much more precise and to bring customization to the next level. The new OpenAI models, built on GPT-4O and GPT-4O-minipromise to improve Whisper Already its previous text to voice tools, which will also remain active through the API. But it is not just a matter of performance: now they can also modulate their tone to sound, for example, “as an empathic customer service agent.” Destination: the call centers. Openai makes it clear where they point with this launch. He assures that “for the first time, developers can tell the model not only to say, but also how to say it, which allows more personalized experiences for use cases ranging from customer service to creative narrative.” According to Openai, this technology will allow creating much richer “conversational experiences.” If we take into account that Chatgptpowered by GPT-3.5arrived in November 2022, it is evident that the progress has been vertiginous. And everything indicates that these models will end up arriving at the call centers. We might think that at first the interactions will be somewhat limited, but well above the current voice systems. They will move away from traditional automated assistants and will be much more natural. Over time, the line between a conversation with a person and an AI could become almost imperceptible. Images | Charanjeet Dhiman | OpenAI In Xataka | We have tried Sesame’s conversational. It is the experience closest to a “human voice” that we have seen In Xataka | China has found an unusual strategy to avoid US mosquadillas with AI: bet on the Open Source

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